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Political discourse in emergent, fragile, and failed democracies / Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo, Omondi Oketch, and Asiru Hameed Tunde, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development.
- Advances in electronic government, digital divide, and regional development (AEGDDRD) book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New democracies--Case studies.
- New democracies.
- Failed states--Case studies.
- Failed states.
- Political culture--Case studies.
- Political culture.
- Discourse analysis--Political aspects--Case studies.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- PDFs (412 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Hershey, Pennsylvania : Information Science Reference, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- "This book examines the effects of unstable democratic systems of government in modern society, providing an imperative analysis on political communications from such nations and highlighting real-world examples on the constraints seen in malfunctioning or emerging governments"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The verbal fuel for ethnic hatred and political violence in Kenya / Tom Onditi Luoch
- Sarcasm and irony as a political weapon: social networking in the time of crisis / Natalia Knoblock
- Of drag and push democracies: the construction of Zimbabwe as a failed-partially resuscitated state in popular songs / Mickias Musiyiwa, Marianna W. Visser
- Real-name registration regulation in China: an examination of Chinese netizens' discussions about censorship, privacy, and political freedom / Kenneth C. C. Yang, Yowei Kang
- Tearing up nationalist discourses?: appraisal analysis of representations of Joice Mujuru and the ZANU PF factionalism dialectic in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao, Marianna Visser
- Politics and promises: a multimodal social semiotic interpretation of political party emblems and slogans as discourse of hope in a democratic Nigeria / Ikenna Kamalu
- Argumentation and appraisal in divergent Zimbabwean parliamentary debates / Ernest Jakaza, Marianna W. Visser
- Media coverage of the 2009 Afghan presidential election / Christopher Strelluf
- A critical political discourse analysis of President Goodluck Jonathan's declaration of state of emergency on Adamawa, Borno, and Yobe states of Nigeria / Angulu Samson Abaya
- ISIS rhetoric for the creation of the Ummah / Amaryllis Maria Georges
- Metaphors for nation and war in Chinua Achebe's memoir / Onwu Inya
- Multilayered political systems and the politics of monitoring local government programmes for engendered service delivery: a case of Apac District in northern Uganda / David Mugambe Mpiima
- Impediments to Nigerian democracy: ambivalent role of vigilante groups in maintaining security in the wake of the Boko Haram insurgence in northern Nigeria / Ibrahim Sani Kankara
- Ethnic stereotyping on Kenyan blog sites in the 2013 political elections: a spurious harbinger of ethnic discord / Nabea Wendo
- Symbols and not manifestoes are the selling point here: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of two contemporary Nigerian political parties' images and slogans / Adegboye Adeyanju
- Legislating for a de jure one-party state in 1982 and "party hopping" in 2012: reconstructing elite discourse on political parties in Kenya / Sammy Gakero Gachigua
- Shades of the GNU in Zimbabwe (2009 - 13): linguistic discourse analyses of representations of transitional politics in Zimbabwean newspapers / Collen Sabao
- On the threshold of democratic fragility: a macrospeech act explication of media representation of the Nigerian 2011 post-presidential election news reports / Asiru Hameed Tunde, Daniel Ochieng Orwenjo
- Revolutionary politics and theater of semiotics: challenges and solutions in northern Nigeria / Esther Nyam
- Are we all equal?: immunity of parliament members and criminal responsibility of cabinet members in Greece / Konstantinos Margaritis.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781522500827
- 1522500820
- OCLC:
- 947669030
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